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The Road to World War II

The Road to World War II. What is the cartoonist suggesting Hitler is doing? Who are the other people in this picture and what does the cartoonist think of them?. January 1933: Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Hitler rearms Germany. Germans grateful for jobs Hitler viewed as a hero.

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The Road to World War II

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  1. The Road to World War II What is the cartoonist suggesting Hitler is doing? Who are the other people in this picture and what does the cartoonist think of them?

  2. January 1933: Hitler became Chancellor of Germany

  3. Hitler rearms Germany Germans grateful for jobs Hitler viewed as a hero

  4. March 1936: German troops marched into the Rhineland

  5. March 1938: Nazi Germany annexed Austria

  6. March 1939: Germany invaded Czechoslovakia First aggressive action War imminent

  7. Nonaggression Pact • Will not attack one another • Good for 10 years • Would split Poland

  8. Stalin Hitler

  9. September 1939: Germany invades Poland

  10. Germany’s War Strategies • Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) • Sitzkreig (“Phony war”)

  11. May 1940: Germany invades France and the Netherlands From the North Why? Evacuation of Dunkirk

  12. By June 1940, France had surrendered to the Germans Britain: last remaining enemy Vichy France

  13. French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle The Maquis

  14. September 1940-May 1941: the Blitz Luftwaffe attempts to bomb Britain into submission British radar’s importance

  15. London Subway used as shelter

  16. British Intelligence Building

  17. The Mediterranean Front • 1940: Mussolini invades Egypt • Britain fights against Italy • Hitler sends rebel forces

  18. The Eastern Front • Summer 1940: Hitler invades Balkan area • Some join willingly, some resist & are taken by force • Goal: bases in SE Europe

  19. Operation Barbarossa, June 1941 Hitler changes focus from Britain to Russia 3,000,000 German soldiers. 3,400 tanks. Turning point

  20. U.S. Lend-Lease Act, 1941 Great Britain.........................$31 billionSoviet Union..........................$11 billionFrance..................................$3 billionChina..................................$1.5 billionOther European......................$500 millionSouth America.......................$400 millionThe amount totaled: $48,601,365,000

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